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The bombardment of Alexandria, a night-attack of jihadic troops in Sudan and a survey in the Far East and Australia

SPINKS, Walter. [Album of watercolours drawn aboard HMS Myrmidon].
On board HMS Myrmidon, [1884-]1886[-1887]. Oblong 4to (17.5 x 25 cm). With 25 watercolours (including 1 double-page) and 13 pencil drawings, most of them captioned in pencil. Contemporary half-sheepskin album. [32] ll. Full description

€ 12,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Australia East Africa Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Malta Manuscripts & Documents Military History (19th Century) Naval History Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Australia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia UK - United Kingdom

Marvelously illustrated emblematic work on moral education

SPINNIKER, Adriaan. Leerzaame zinnebeelden, ... Tweede druk.
Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1757. With engraved frontispiece and 50 beautifully engraved emblems in text.
With: (2) SPINNIKER, Adriaan. Vervolg der Leerzaame zinnenbeelden, Spiegel der boetvaardigheid en genade en eenige stichtelyke gezangen.
Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1758. With same engraved frontispiece (with revisions), 30 engraved emblems in text and 4 engraved emblems on plates with letterpress text. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. Contemporary gold-tooled, tanned sheepskin. [16], 220, [3, 1 blank]; [8], XII, 144, 90, [2] pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Dutch Literature Emblem & Songbooks

Emblem book with engravings by Vander Vinne and Philips

SPINNIKER, Adriaan. Vervolg der leerzaame zinnebeelden, spiegel der boetvaardigheid en genade en eenige stichtelyke gezangen.
Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1758. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With engraved frontispiece, engraving on title-page, 30 engraved emblems in text (ca. 10 x 12.5 cm) by Vincent vander Vinne in the first part, and 4 engraved emblems in text (10 x 12.5 cm) by Jan Caspar Philips in the second part. Contemporary marbled wrappers. [8], XII, 144, [2], 90 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Dutch Literature Emblems Music, Theatre & Dance Songbooks

9 drawings of magnificent triumphal arches and funeral biers erected in Siena for its leading family
and for the Grand Duke of Toscany Cosimo III de Medici and his wife and son

[SPLENDID CEREMONIES]. [Triumphal arches and catafalques (elaborate funeral biers) erected in the years 1715, 1721-1723 and 1737].
[Sienna, ca. 1728, with 1 addition ca. 1737]. Folio (ca. 29 x 21 cm). 8 original drawings in black ink with ink washes plus 1 additional line drawing of a catafalque added about a decade later. Never bound, but formerly sewn. ll. 28-31, 34-37. Full description

€ 9,500

Architecture Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks Drawings & Watercolours Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Italy Malta

Religious festivities in the Southern Netherlands

[SPLENDID CEREMONY - MECHELEN]. Prael-treyn verrykt door ry-benden, praelwagens, zinne-beelden en andere oppronkingen...
Mechelen, J.F. vander Elst, [1775?].
With:
(2) [SPLENDID CEREMONY - BRUSSELS]. Beschryvinge van de ry-bende ofte cavalcade..
Brussels, J. vanden Berghen, [1770].
(3) [MEYER, Jean Thomas]. Beschryvinge van het zeven honderdjaerig jubilé van den heyligen Macarius...
Ghent, Jean Meyer, [1767].
3 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1 with an engraved coat of arms, an engraved headpiece, and 16 engraved plates (including 14 folding). Ad 2 with 5 numbered folding engraved plates. Ad 3 with 15 mostly folding engraved plates, including one large folding plate showing fireworks (36.5 x 48 cm). Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. [12], 34 [= 38]; 36; [8], XII, 84 pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Art & Art History Belgium Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks

The Hadhramaut in Southern Arabia through the eyes and camera lens of Freya Stark

STARK, Freya. Seen in the Hadhramaut.
London, John Murray, 1938. 4to. With the title-page in red and black, 1 map of the Hadhramaut titled: "Seen in the Hadhramaut", and 50 double sided plates. The plates are included in the pagination. Blue cloth with black lettering on front cover and spine. With dust jacket. XXIII, [1 blank], 199, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 650

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Photography Women History

Iconic songbook by the most famous Frisian poet of the Golden Age in its third most complete edition

STARTER, Jan Jansz. Friesche Lust-hof, beplant met verscheyden stichtelijcke minne-liedekens, gedichten, ende boertighe kluchten. Den derden druck op nieuws vermeerdert ende verbetert ... Midtsgaders oock noch verrijckt ende verçierd met schoone kopere figuren; ende by alle onbekende wysen de noten, ofte musycke gevoeght.
Amsterdam, Widow of Dirck Pietersz. Voscuyl, [1624]. Oblong 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved portrait of the author, 10 engraved plates in the text, musical annotation, and decorated woodcut initials. 18th-century mottled brown calf. [14], 206, [40] pp. Full description

€ 14,500

Dutch Literature Music, Theatre & Dance Netherlands Songbooks

Visual documentation of daily life of members of the US army stationed in Iran during the Second World War

[PERSIAN GULF COMMAND]. STEFANO, John (compiler/ photographer). [Cover title:] Persian Gulf Command. Iran.
[Ca. 1943-1945]. Ca. 32.5 x 26 cm. With 150 gelatin silver photographs (various sizes). Contemporary embossed brown cloth, with the title embossed in silver on the front board, and the green shoulder sleeve insignia of the Persian Gulf Command embedded in the front board [16], [11 blank] ll. Full description

€ 4,500

Iran / Persia Military History (20th Century) Photography USA - United States of America

3 very rare pint series on garden ornament, architecture and architectural ornament

STEINGRUBER, Johann David. Architecture civile erster Theil ... | Architecture civile premiere partie ... [all published].
Augsburg, Johann Andreas Pfeffel, [ca. 1740/48].
With:
(2) DANREITER, Franz Anton. Lust-Stück der Gärten ... | Parterres ou broderies des jardins ... [Erster-]Anderer Theil.
Augsburg, Johann Andreas Pfeffel, [ca. 1730/1735].
(3) CHARMETON, Georges. Plans de divers edifices et corniches choisies ... | Abrisse unterschiedener Gebälcke und Kronwercke ...
Augsburg, Johann Andreas Pfeffel, [ca. 1740/48]. 3 works, ad 2 in 2 parts, in 1 volume. Oblong folio (25 x 38.5 cm). Ad 1: with an engraved plate with a German note to the reader, and 25 numbered plates of architectural plans, elevations and sections engraved by J.D. Ringlin after Steingruber, plate 1 with the German title in and French title flanking a decorative cartouche, each further plate with a heading in German and French. Ad 2: with 2 engraved illustrated title pages from the same plate (ruins in a landscape, with 2 putti holding a drape with the title, the second title page with "Anderer Theil" in the foot margin) plus 22 and 20 numbered illustration plates showing garden plans, decorations, fountains, etc. Ad 3: with 12 engraved plates, including the title page, the illustrations showing the entablatures of various classical Roman buildings. Near contemporary half white vellum and beige paper sides, sewn on 4 vellum tapes, laced through the joints, with a hollow back, gold-tooled author and title for the Steingruber (with ornaments) near the head of the spine, with that part of the vellum coloured red, red sprinkled edges, headbands in yellow and blue. [1], 25; [1], 20, [1], 22; 12 engraved ll. Full description

€ 18,000

Architecture Castles, Gardens & Mansions Prints & Print Series

Explorations in Chinese Turkistan and adjacent parts of innermost Asia

STEIN, Marc Aurel. On ancient Central-Asian tracks. Brief narrative of three expeditions in innermost Asia and north-western China.
London, MacMillan and Co., 1933. With frontispiece, map and 147 illustrations (some folding). Original publisher's brown/red cloth. xxiv, 342, [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,800

Archaeology Art & Art History China Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia

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